- Summary
- In 1933 Berlin Bishop Joachim Hossenfelder proclaimed the popular, pro-Nazi "German Christian" movement the "Storm Troopers of Christ." Hossenfelder led the early phase of a movement that still echoes through the church today, even though the world has tried to forget. This film looks at the people who lived through the movement: Ludwig Mueller, the bishop of the Third Reich, Martin Niemoeller, the first to resist the Nazification of the church, Karl Themel, a pastor who used baptismal certificates to send "Jewish Christians" to the concentration camps, Werner Syltan, a pastor who died at Dachau because of his work on behalf of persons of Jewish descent amd Walter Grundmann, a reknown Biblical scholar and architect of the "Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence on German Church Life."
- Other Title
- Storm troopers of Christ.
- Format
- Video
- Published
- [United States] : Vital Visions, Inc. : [distributed by Vital Visuals Inc.], [2008?]
- Locale
- Germany
- Other Authors/Editors
- Martin, Steven D.
Shafer-Powell, Matt.
Krogel, Wolfgang.
Herzog, Dagmar, 1961-
Stassen, Glen Harold, 1936-2014.
Heschel, Susannah.
Bergen, Doris L.
Vital Visions (Firm)
Vital Visuals (Firm)
- Notes
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Originally produced in 2007.
Narrator, Matt Shafer-Powell; featuring: Wolfgang Krogel, Dagmar Herzog, Glen Stassen, Susannah Heschel, Doris Bergen, Robert Ericksen, Richard Steigmann-Gall, Manfred Gailus
DVD; optimized for widescreen televisions; Dolby digital 2.0.
In English with some German subtitled in English.
